Professor Kantardzhiev revealed how to understand how we will spend COVID-19 – Diseases

“The loss of the sense of smell is a prognosis of a slight passage through the new coronavirus,” the director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev, told FOCUS.

He explained that normally COVID infection develops more slowly and its incubation period is longer..

“It usually starts with a sore throat, and young people with healthy immune systems first lose their sense of smell. This worries people, although the loss of the sense of smell is usually a prognosis that it will be easier overcome the disease, “he added.

“The criteria is fever and unproductive cough. Flu infection starts in a few hours. The French word “grippe” means to grasp. It’s better to have laboratory confirmation through a test, “he said.

According to Professor Todor Kantardzhiev antigen tests have improved the diagnosis of the virus and are available to general practitioners and ambulances.